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A very pleasing to the eye bird shot. A great habitat shot and for me the bg is already sufficiently oof.
Sky pilot has pointed out the halo around some parts of the bird caused by aggressive sharpening, this is where selective sharpening would help as you could select just the bird then shrink the selection so it's inside the birds outline, when you apply the sharpening there shouldn't be a halo showing.

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What do you like?

Nice shot, good eye contact, beautiful colours captured

What would you improve?

Can crop a bit more on the right; could have reduced F to may be 4 or 5.6 and reduce ISO - would certainly have got the background blurred a bit more - at 4 possibly a bokeh where the bird would have stood out

28 January 2016

benstThanks for the feedback bnarayan! I would have liked to use f5.6 but my lens (sigma 120-400mm os) doesn't seem to like it when at 360mm+ .....f8-11 seems optimal for retaining sharpness See my other shot "red-backed wren" I think spotifest posted a link there to others using this lens and it seems f8-11 is the best it can do unfortunately.

What do you like?

The composition is good, and the colors are striking.

What would you improve?

I can tell that it was sharpened quite a bit, as there is a slight halo, especially on the dark parts of the bird. There is also quite a bit of noise in the background, which is something I struggle with as well. Was this cropped quite a bit?

Helpful 126 January 2016

benstwas a medium crop , my struggle is with movement and the lens I am using. Thanks for the feedback Sky !!